Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 50e517cf38a79423…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.5 KB Created: 2021-09-15 12:45:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 197afb7ba13e23ae301aeeec994ab438 SHA-1: 8ee463ee1851c8a47385c288ce95e2affb8446af SHA-256: 50e517cf38a794235a43f48a18c3e9477b8d856e8c334ad98cd5541b2cbcc578
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to potentially compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. The presence of multiple external URIs and a 'download button' heuristic further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://ancheng-medical.com/uploadfile/files/79054104007.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://innova-perila.ru/upload/files/65906058407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edwardfmcgintypa.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/betaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gabinetortodontyczny.eu/userfiles/file/zuvuzajejuvomowijegow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sangjeom.com/userfiles/file///xobijorefanixilofude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekotop.eu/userfiles/file/gedesebonilesesedosukolaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://economiadecomunion.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/buditolidiwatijevir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agecarekorea.com/ckupload/files/befiferijifimovuroruzogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dastone.ru/userfiles/file/89131138135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://titadoorbinhduong.com/upload/files/89097317777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yung-shun.com/userfiles/file/4319404798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0759fadf5ad8de0c12dab2e4fb89ce8b/59222245225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rayer.cn/d/files/36974568787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b2533b314a---4864462170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apartmany.cucoriedka.sk/data/files/39803149522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geombiagioschettino.eu/userfiles/files/pazosoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c66ed80b61---rekafuvesuvaxaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/31656892919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amgaa.org/temp/files/kukebapexivan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etcpremium.com/userfiles/files/20297973211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huzatfokozo.hu/editor_up/76914636747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blondel-bois.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sidukejonim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phoenixknights.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a7936eb7dfbed5fdc7e7ec005233af2/96263626456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massimobertoarchitetto.com/userfiles/files/32177915570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carlaschroyen.com/content_docs/94583489090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=holy+bible+free+download+for+androidPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c511.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC511 18376 bytes
SHA-256: 1dc83b6ee65d247e8da3ee1205d4d377688072d9d34f4bd33dcd5a22f5b839ce
font_01_sfnt_off0000f40d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF40D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010c24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C24 10412 bytes
SHA-256: 96f4415b3cf8ed348d8c3f0f9d7ad7654dce93e9d6708edc76a1383d0477a77f